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Today, global land use is affected by a variety of factors, including urbanization and the growing interconnectedness of economies and markets. This volume of the Strungmann Forum Reports Series examines the challenges and opportunities we face in achieving sustainable land use in the twenty-first century. While land resources remain finite, the global population is projected to reach ten billion by the end of the century, bringing issues of ethics and fairness to center stage. Who should decide how land is used? Where does competition for land occur, and why? Moreover, accelerating globalizat ... More
Keywords: sustainable global land use, urbanization, teleconnections, sustainable land use, land ethics, globalization, food production, governance
Print publication date: 2014 | Print ISBN-13: 9780262026901 |
Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: September 2014 | DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262026901.001.0001 |
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